[kj] Ian MacKaye clears up death rumors

[Brendan]

I died last week actually, but am hoping it will clear up by this weekend.


> http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/critics/blog/2007/10/ian_mackaye_is_alive_elvis_is.html

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> A phone rings at 6:08 p.m. in Arlington, Va. A 45-year-old man picks up.

> The caller doesn't even have the chance to offer a greeting.

>

> "I am still alive," reports Ian MacKaye, the frontman of such punk acts

> as Minor Threat and Fugazi, and the founder of Washington's Dischord

> Records.

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> This would not be news except that The Sun and apparently many other

> organizations had been told that MacKaye was, in fact, dead. We were

> told that he died Monday night at Baltimore's St. Agnes Hospital. A call

> to the hospital found no evidence of such a patient. We followed up with

> calls to Dischord (left a message) and to MacKaye's home.

>

> "I am happy to report that I am not dead," says MacKaye. He and the

> record company had been blasted with calls, he says, after premature

> reports of his death were posted on MySpace and Wikipedia. He says he

> hasn't been able to find the MySpace reference, but had the Wikipedia

> posting removed -- and then re-removed, once someone reinserted the

> false news.

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